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The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

2018; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 559; Issue: 7715 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/s41586-018-0301-1

1476-4687

Jos Barlow, Filipe França, Toby Gardner, Christina C. Hicks, Gareth D. Lennox, Érika Berenguer, Leandro Castello, Evan P. Economo, Joice Ferreira, Benoît Guénard, Cecília Gontijo Leal, Victoria Isaac, Alexander Charles Lees, Catherine L. Parr, Shaun K. Wilson, P. J. Young, Nicholas A. J. Graham,

Marine and fisheries research

The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth’s biodiversity: their terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including almost all shallow-water corals and over 90% of terrestrial birds. However, tropical ecosystems are also subject to pervasive and interacting stressors, such as deforestation, overfishing and climate change, and they are set within a socio-economic context that includes growing pressure from an increasingly globalized world, larger and more affluent tropical populations, and weak governance and response capacities. Concerted local, national and international actions are urgently required to prevent a collapse of tropical biodiversity. The immense biodiversity of tropical ecosystems is threatened by multiple interacting local and global stressors that can only be addressed by the concerted efforts of grassroots organizations, researchers, national governments and the international community.